adj
Meaning 1
Pertaining to or like a dilettante.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
dilettante
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /dɪlɪˈtænti/
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Received-Pronunciation: /dɪləˈtɒnti/
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General-American: /ˈdɪlɪˌtɑnt/
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General-American: /ˈdɪlɪˌtænt/
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General-American: /ˌdɪlɪˈtɑnt/
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General-American: /ˌdɪlɪˈtænt/
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General-American: /ˌdɪlɪˈtɑnteɪ/
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noun
Meaning 2
An amateur, someone who dabbles in a field out of casual interest rather than as a profession or serious interest.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: amateur, dabbler
Antonyms: professional
noun
Meaning 3
A person with a general but superficial interest in any art or a branch of knowledge.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: derogatory, sometimes
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 4
showing frivolous or superficial interest; amateurish
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- his dilettantish efforts at painting
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: dilettantish, dilettanteish, sciolistic
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
an amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: dabbler, sciolist
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: amateur
History
Etymology
From Italian dilettante, present participle of dilettare (“to delight”), from Latin dēlectāre (“to delight”).
Across languages
Translations
118 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: дилетантски (diletantski) — pertaining to or like a dilettante
- Bulgarian: любителски (ljubitelski) — pertaining to or like a dilettante
- Catalan: diletant — pertaining to or like a dilettante
- Catalan: aficionat — pertaining to or like a dilettante
- Catalan: aficionada — pertaining to or like a dilettante
- Dutch: dilettantisch — pertaining to or like a dilettante
- Esperanto: diletanta — pertaining to or like a dilettante
- Finnish: harrastelijamainen — pertaining to or like a dilettante
- French: dilettante — pertaining to or like a dilettante
- French: dilettantesque — pertaining to or like a dilettante
- Georgian: დილეტანტური (dileṭanṭuri) — pertaining to or like a dilettante
- German: dilettantisch — pertaining to or like a dilettante
- Hindi: कला-प्रेमी (kalā-premī) — pertaining to or like a dilettante
- Hindi: अध्यवसायी कलाकार (adhyavsāyī kalākār) — pertaining to or like a dilettante
- Hindi: अपूर्ण ज्ञाता (apūrṇ jñātā) — pertaining to or like a dilettante
- Polish: amatorski — pertaining to or like a dilettante
- Russian: дилета́нтский (diletántskij) — pertaining to or like a dilettante
- Russian: люби́тельский (ljubítelʹskij) — pertaining to or like a dilettante
- Russian: непрофессиональный (neprofessionalʹnyj) — pertaining to or like a dilettante
- Spanish: diletante — pertaining to or like a dilettante
- Spanish: dilettante — pertaining to or like a dilettante
- Swedish: amatörmässig — pertaining to or like a dilettante
- Armenian: դիլետանտ (diletant) — someone who dabbles
- Belarusian: дылета́нт (dyljetánt) — someone who dabbles
- Belarusian: дылета́нтка (dyljetántka) — someone who dabbles
- Bulgarian: дилета́нт (diletánt) — someone who dabbles
- Bulgarian: дилета́нтка (diletántka) — someone who dabbles
- Catalan: diletant — someone who dabbles
- Catalan: aficionat — someone who dabbles
- Catalan: aficionada — someone who dabbles
- Chinese Mandarin: 業餘愛好者 /业余爱好者 (yèyú àihàozhě) — someone who dabbles
- Czech: diletant — someone who dabbles
- Czech: diletantka — someone who dabbles
- Dutch: liefhebber — someone who dabbles
- Dutch: amateur — someone who dabbles
- Esperanto: diletanto — someone who dabbles
- Esperanto: amatoro — someone who dabbles
- Finnish: harrastelija — someone who dabbles
- Finnish: diletantti — someone who dabbles
- French: dilettante — someone who dabbles
- Georgian: დილეტანტი (dileṭanṭi) — someone who dabbles
- German: Dilettant — someone who dabbles
- German: Dilettantin — someone who dabbles
- German: Amateur — someone who dabbles
- German: Amateurin — someone who dabbles
- German: Stümper — someone who dabbles
- German: Stümperin — someone who dabbles
- German: Laie — someone who dabbles
- German: Laiin — someone who dabbles
- Hebrew: חוֹבְבָן (h'ovevan) — someone who dabbles
- Hindi: अध्यवसायी (adhyavsāyī) — someone who dabbles
- Hindi: अपूर्ण ज्ञाता (apūrṇ jñātā) — someone who dabbles
- Hungarian: műkedvelő — someone who dabbles
- Hungarian: amatőr — someone who dabbles
- Italian: dilettante — someone who dabbles
- Macedonian: дилета́нт (diletánt) — someone who dabbles
- Macedonian: дилета́нтка (diletántka) — someone who dabbles
- Norwegian Bokmål: dilettant — someone who dabbles
- Polish: amator — someone who dabbles
- Polish: amatorka — someone who dabbles
- Polish: dyletant — someone who dabbles
- Polish: dyletantka — someone who dabbles
- Portuguese: diletante — someone who dabbles
- Romanian: diletant — someone who dabbles
- Romanian: amator — someone who dabbles
- Russian: дилета́нт (diletánt) — someone who dabbles
- Russian: дилета́нтка (diletántka) — someone who dabbles
- Russian: люби́тель (ljubítelʹ) — someone who dabbles
- Russian: люби́тельница (ljubítelʹnica) — someone who dabbles
- Russian: непрофессионал (neprofessional) — someone who dabbles
- Russian: профа́н (profán) — someone who dabbles
- Russian: ча́йник (čájnik) — someone who dabbles
- Russian: ла́поть (lápotʹ) — someone who dabbles
- Russian: лох (lox) — someone who dabbles
- Serbo-Croatian: дилѐтант — someone who dabbles
- Serbo-Croatian: дилѐтантица — someone who dabbles
- Serbo-Croatian: љу̀битељ — someone who dabbles
- Serbo-Croatian: љубитѐљица — someone who dabbles
- Serbo-Croatian: dilètant — someone who dabbles
- Serbo-Croatian: dilètantica — someone who dabbles
- Serbo-Croatian: ljùbitelj — someone who dabbles
- Serbo-Croatian: ljubitèljica — someone who dabbles
- Slovak: diletant — someone who dabbles
- Slovak: diletantka — someone who dabbles
- Slovene: ljubitelj — someone who dabbles
- Slovene: ljubiteljica — someone who dabbles
- Spanish: diletante — someone who dabbles
- Spanish: dilettante — someone who dabbles
- Swedish: dilettant — someone who dabbles
- Swedish: klåpare — someone who dabbles
- Ukrainian: дилета́нт (dyletánt) — someone who dabbles
- Ukrainian: дилета́нтка (dyletántka) — someone who dabbles
- Catalan: diletant — person with a general but superficial interest
- Catalan: aficionat — person with a general but superficial interest
- Catalan: aficionada — person with a general but superficial interest
- Dutch: liefhebber — person with a general but superficial interest
- Dutch: amateur — person with a general but superficial interest
- Finnish: harrastelija — person with a general but superficial interest
- Finnish: diletantti — person with a general but superficial interest
- Georgian: დილეტანტი (dileṭanṭi) — person with a general but superficial interest
- German: Dilettant — person with a general but superficial interest
- German: Dilettantin — person with a general but superficial interest
- German: Nichtfachmann — person with a general but superficial interest
- Hindi: अनुरागी (anurāgī) — person with a general but superficial interest
- Hindi: शौक़ीन (śauqīn) — person with a general but superficial interest
- Hungarian: dilettáns — person with a general but superficial interest
- Norwegian Bokmål: dilettant — person with a general but superficial interest
- Polish: amator — person with a general but superficial interest
- Polish: amatorka — person with a general but superficial interest
- Portuguese: diletante — person with a general but superficial interest
- Russian: дилета́нт (diletánt) — person with a general but superficial interest
- Russian: дилета́нтка (diletántka) — person with a general but superficial interest
- Spanish: diletante — person with a general but superficial interest
- Spanish: dilettante — person with a general but superficial interest
- Swedish: dilettant — person with a general but superficial interest
- Swedish: amatör — person with a general but superficial interest
- Ukrainian: дилета́нт (dyletánt) — person with a general but superficial interest
- Ukrainian: дилета́нтка (dyletántka) — person with a general but superficial interest